Former West Bengal Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah, who once criticised his own Left party’s policies, passes away
A former veteran minister of West Bengal’s Left Front regime as well as with TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, passed away on Friday at around 11 am.
His son Mostaq Ahmed told The Indian Express, “He was ill for more than a year. Today morning, he was sitting on his chair at his residence. Suddenly, he went through a brain stroke and before he could be shifted to hospital, he died.”
Mollah, who was 80, first became an MLA in 1972, and remained an MLA until 2021.
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He was last elected as TMC MLA from the Canning (East) constituency in 2016 and became the Minister of Horticulture in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet. He was the Land and Land Reform Minister in former CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s cabinet, and openly criticised Bhattacharjee...